Description
The Doobie Brothers were riding high on the pop charts when this show was captured in Memphis, Tennessee in October 1975.
The show was recorded shortly after the departure of founding member and singer/guitarist Tom Johnston, who was forced to leave the band and was replaced by the then-unknown Michael McDonald.
Although this is a condensed set, all but one of the eight songs featured here had been a radio hit for the Bay Area-based rock band, but it’s classic, vintage DB who are backed up by the formidable Memphis Horns & J. Geils guesting! So you get ‘Jesus is Just Alright’, Rockin’ Down the Highway, ‘Black Water’, Long Train Runnin’, China Grove, et al….it takes you back but in a good way!…and great to hear these ‘radio hits’ in a live setting with the room the band had to move with arrangements & expand on the ‘single format’….sit (or dance or play “air guitar”!?) & transport yourself back to a very carefree time…and one when attending concerts was both a rite of passage & essential & POSSIBLE!!
The TimeLine label proudly presents, the Doobie Brothers live from Memphis Tennessee on 31st October 1975.
A superb, professionally remastered King Biscuit Flower Hour broadcast, presented with background liners and timeline photos….and I just love the KING BISCUIT INTRO…truly ‘of a time’!!
